There are situations when the SQL server is getting wild – mostly because of our own actions or poorly written queries. From time to time we notice that the SQL…
Some of our clients are using Survey Gizmo in order to gather surveys from their clients. Survey Gizmo is able to serve surveys using your domain name (of course –…
More than two years ago, I wrote a “how-to” post about the Amazon AWS Instance Scheduler that was based on the pieces provided by the AWS team. I notice that…
SD cards are getting cheaper and cheaper. They are also growing larger and larger. Unfortunately, it also causes some sellers to sell fake SD cards – they are introduced as…
If you tried to calculate HMAC-SHA1 in ColdFusion, you might find a strange issue: if the key is provided as a byte array, it is not producing the proper results…
I noticed a strange error recently. When trying to access the properties of the MS SQL database using the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, I received this error: “Cannot show…
I know, I know, this is not the best practice. The instance should be configured so it will work properly and status checks will always pass. The problem is that…
We got this issue multiple times each and every year. Our clients are using various certificate providers, one of them is Digicert. Each year they are receiving certificate renewal with…
On some of the computers, we recently upgraded the operating system from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. These are rather old machines working together in a non-profit organization. The office…
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The UFW – Uncomplicated Firewall gets more and more popular. It is good because the better the servers are secured, the better is the security in general. However, UFW users…